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Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues
Jul 29, 2015
A Chinese front opens in the battle over Taiji's dolphin drive hunts
There was much media coverage in April of the decision by the World Association for Zoos and Aquariums (WAZA) to suspend its Japanese affiliate, JAZA, because of concerns over animal cruelty due to the sourcing of captive dolphins from the infamous drive hunts in Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture.
EDITORIALS
Jul 29, 2015
China's worrisome market meddling
China's leaders need to push structural reform that will let markets play their due roles in the economy.
COMMENTARY / Japan / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
Jul 29, 2015
U.S. Congress' egocentric strategem in the TPP talks
With the passage of the Trade Promotion Authority Act, the U.S. will become increasingly self-centered in pursuit of its national interests in international trade negotiations, including the TPP.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 29, 2015
Volatility of China's stock market is no surprise
The roller-coaster ride of China's stock market is far from over.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Jul 28, 2015
China's stocks extend rout as traders test government support
Chinese stocks fell Tuesday in volatile trading, extending the biggest one-day loss since 2007, as concern grew unprecedented government intervention will fail to shore up equities.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 28, 2015
U.S. training China's military even as tensions rise
The U.S. should enhance its military cooperation with China, but take care to protect its most sensitive tactics, techniques and procedures.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 28, 2015
The South China Sea spats: an alternative point of view
In the eyes of other countries, China has behaved badly in the South China Sea. In China's view so have other claimants — and the U.S. and now Japan.
WORLD
Jul 28, 2015
China 'not planning' to build military bases in Maldives
China is not planning to build military bases in the Maldives, the Foreign Ministry said Tuesday, after the Maldives allowed foreigners to own land despite opposition concern the reform could be used for military expansion by China.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 27, 2015
Repression puts China's future prosperity at risk
Repression threatens China's economic dynamism and political stability.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 27, 2015
China eyes new cruise link to disputed South China Sea islands
Chinese authorities plan to start a second cruise ship link to the disputed Paracel Islands in the South China Sea, state media reported Monday, in a move that may irk Vietnam, which also claims the islets.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Jul 27, 2015
Amid crackdown, China attempts to dispel foreign NGOs' concerns
China's Minister of Public Security has assured foreign nongovernment organizations operating in the country that China supports their activities amid fears that a controversial new law governing NGOs could hamper the development of civil society.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 26, 2015
India and China slug it out in Central Asia
If India doesn't give Central Asia the sustained attention it deserves, China will be able to claim the region as another one of its 'backyards.'
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Jul 26, 2015
China jails 14 members of banned cult
A court in the central Chinese province of Hubei has jailed nine members of a banned religious cult for up to three years, the official Xinhua News Agency said Sunday, a day after five others were sentenced in a northeastern province.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 26, 2015
Filipino fishermen remove Chinese buoys near disputed shoal, officials say
Filipino fishermen found several buoys with Chinese markings near the disputed Scarborough Shoal and towed the devices back to shore northwest of the capital, Manila, Philippines officials said Sunday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 26, 2015
How Sony sanitized films to please China's censors
In a 2013 script for the movie "Pixels," intergalactic aliens blast a hole in one of China's national treasures — the Great Wall.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 24, 2015
China's live stress test yields valuable lessons
China's economy has succeeded through trial and error, and the lessons of its current stress test should be viewed as part of that process, to be used to drive the next phase of economic reform.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Jul 23, 2015
Myanmar sentences Chinese nationals to life for illegal logging
China has lodged a diplomatic protest with Myanmar after a court in the southeast Asian nation sentenced 153 Chinese nationals to life imprisonment for illegal logging.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 23, 2015
Japan's automaker association warns of 'downward spiral' in China sales
China's vehicle market has shown signs of a "downward spiral" that will eventually hit Japanese carmakers, according to the head of Japan's auto association.
Woman dies after train collides with car in Tochigi
A Moka Railway train car
After Shohei Ohtani bump, Iwate ironware maker sees brighter future
Kaito Kikuchi's decision to send superstar Shohei Ohtani one of his company's traditional ironware tea kettles has paid off with a surge of interest from general consumers.
Tokyo police care for lost umbrellas, keys and flying squirrels
An employee at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Lost and Found Center in the Iidabashi area of central Tokyo bags, tags and organizes thousands of items.
Japan to aid introduction of multilingual ride-hailing apps
A Nihon Kotsu Co. taxi departs one of the company's service offices in Tokyo.
Seven & I founding family sounded out KKR and others about buyout: report
A 7-Eleven convenience store in Tokyo
Tokyo’s newest three-star chef wants ‘harmony across every detail’
British-born Daniel Calvert earned his third Michelin star last month — a stunning achievement considering his restaurant, Sezanne, has only been open for just over three years.
133-year-old Kyushu railway station remains to be partially preserved
The remains of the original Moji Station in Kitakyushu
After Shohei Ohtani bump, Iwate ironware maker sees brighter future
Kaito Kikuchi's decision to send superstar Shohei Ohtani one of his company's traditional ironware tea kettles has paid off with a surge of interest from general consumers.
Shohei Ohtani wins National League MVP award
Shohei Ohtani celebrates after hitting a three-run home run against the Padres during the National League Division Series at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles last month.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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